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was only a small place, so he was bolted and 

 killed. 



1901—02. It is not very often that two 

 packs of hounds actually meet when hunting 

 a fox, but I find in my hunting diary that 

 this happened on the 25th January, when 

 I was hunting with the York and Ainsty. i 



The York had met at Dalton village, and 

 Lord Middleton's hounds at Gilling Castle. 

 During the afternoon the two packs met in 

 one of the Newburgh coverts. The York 

 had run well from Peep o' Day Whin, by 

 Oulston and Pond Head Wood to Yearsley, 

 and near this place Mr. Lycett Green came 

 across a whipper-in of Lord Middleton's. 

 Soon afterwards, several of Lord Middleton's 

 hounds joined in the cry of the York, and 

 although at first they seemed somewhat 

 surprised at their companions, they ran 

 merrily on till the York fox was eventually 

 marked to ground near Gilling Castle. The 

 field had also got somewhat mixed, some 

 of the York were with Lord Middleton's 

 hounds, some of Lord Middleton\s with 

 the York. 



Seven and twenty years ago(October 1881), 

 I saw much the same thing happen with the 

 Holderness and Lord Middleton's. I was 

 hunting with the Holderness. We found at 

 North Dalton Whin, and ran across by 

 Haywold, Huggate and Paine Slack to 

 Fimber station ; and crossed the railway into 

 a big wood on the east side of it. Here 

 the Holderness first whipper-in met another 



